It's about 4:30pm and there is a group of three students in the UC studying for an exam. Their papers were spread out all over two tables pushed together. There is a girl with long hair in a brown leather jacket (1), a guy in a blue sweater with a beard (2), and a blonde guy in a gray t-shirt (3). I'm not sure what class exactly they were studying for, but it was something scientific. At times it was difficult to hear what they were saying, because I didn't want to be really creepy and sit right next to them, so I sat a table away. Even then, the UC is a pretty loud place. I did my best!
2: Tissue thrombo plastid.
3: I’m just glad I got my 10 hours of sleep last night. I’m not in terrible position. On a scale of one to shit I think I’m ok.
1: Hemophilia. I feel like that's a
2: None of that's even…
1: What’s that smell. Smells like corned beef.
3: You know what would be so good tonight? Grilled corn with some spices and butter.
2: Wow is that almost, pretty much it?
3: No.
2: Fuck off.
All laughs.
1: OK what is…let’s go over this really quick.
2: This is uh,
3: You know, I’ve honestly never considered cheating on a test before. Because to be honest, I know how to do it too. My friend. He wears shorts and writes on his leg.
1: I know people that cheat using their phones. For anatomy.
1: I did so good on those lab exams.
2: Yeah they’re all memorization.
1: Yeah I would get, I would get ok grades on my in class exams.
3: Jesus Christ Mike you’re eating like a damn pig!
2: Haha yeah.
3: Their tots are amazing. I like them better than McMinnamins.
2: Alright what are we on to. Let’s focus dude.
1: So much stuff…
2: What did you get on the first one? 88.
3: That’s all im aiming for.
1: Me too
2: I just have to do good on this one so I don’t have to stress about the final.
1: You said respiratory?
3: Yeah.
2: Cystic fibrosis is definitely gonna be on there.
3: Mucuociliary escalator.
2: Cystic fibrosis is just really thick mucus…where those ions go, water will follow.
1: Can you explain that to me.
2: I think it’s sodium.
3: If its over here its gonna wanna stay over there.
This is really cool. I like how you wrote it in 1. 2. 3. form. It made it easy to keep straight what everyone said. I felt like you did a good job capturing their dialogue. I can see a group of friends talking like this.
ReplyDeleteI think it's cool how you organized your post, with each person identified with a number. Their conversation made me laugh. Typical college students, always going off on tangents when they're supposed to be studying. I really liked this.
ReplyDeleteI like the structure of your piece, where you organized the students by number, pretty helpful since you dont know their names. Reading this I laughed because that's actually how many conversations go in the UC they are disorganized and kinda scattered while trying to study :) I would want to know what was happening during this conversation. Give me some movement in between, but great job!
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